Media in the body

After going to a presentation about voices of hip hop in art, I learned about Kehinde Wiley who uses this image to describe the status of the hip-hop world. The image communicates the current styles and attitudes of the hip hop world by using the male figure. Kehinde has a very different process of creating portrait art, he goes out and finds African Americans who visually represent the culture of hip hop and then paints them in the same style as Renaissance painters. This process is different because he is looking for a specific look instead of someone finding him and paying him to paint their portrait. This specific look (apparel)is a main focus of the hip hop lifestyle.